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By James Peters

Freezing Rain

UPDATE: Environment Canada ends weather statement, keeps snowfall warning for Shuswap

Nov 22, 2019 | 11:33 PM

KAMLOOPS — UPDATE: (Nov. 23, 12:00 p.m.) Environment Canada has now ended its weather statement due to freezing rain, but kept the snowfall warning for the Shuswap in place.

EARLIER: Environment Canada has re-issued its special weather statement because of the threat of freezing rain over much of the Southern Interior Saturday (Nov. 23).

In addition, a snowfall warning has been put in place for the Shuswap and for the Trans Canada Highway heading east toward the Alberta border.

Forecaster Doug Lundquist says it’s likely any precipitation Saturday morning will fall as rain in the valley bottoms and snow at higher elevations, but some pockets could see freezing rain.

“There might be an isolated pocket where it’s cold enough to come down as freezing rain,” said Lundquist, “but as the day goes by, it’s actually a really warm pattern. It’s should warm up to plus-7 in the valley and melt out.”

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Lundquist notes travellers on the high mountain passes south of Kamloops should watch for snowfall — but that’s quite normal for late November.

“Perhaps two-to-five centimetres on the Hope-to-Merritt and Merritt-to-Kelowna (stretches), and maybe only a couple of centimetres on the Merritt-to-Kamloops section of the Coquihalla,” said Lundquist.